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World of Warcraft and Hearthstone developer Blizzard has said that the latest character revealed for upcoming shooter Overwatch demonstrates an renewed commitment to diversity in games. New character Zarya eschews many of the typical traps that female games characters fall victim to – such as unpractical armour designed purely to …

Applications due on May 3rd for popular annual student development contest with new, wider criteria

Click Entertainment has signed on as a Gold Partner for this year’s MCV Awards. Click Entertainment is proud to sponsor the MCV Awards and even prouder to be nominated three years running," commentedJake Wright, head of business development at Click Entertainment. "Thank you for your continued support.” Click joins previously …

Stoic's Alex Thomas working on procedurally generated 2D stealth game

The events firm behindthe UK’s first eSports arena- Gfinity – has said it has plans to open an even larger capacity venue. "Ideallywe’d like to build a larger capacity dedicated arena in the UK, but during a period of such fast growth (Gfinity is experiencingapproximately30,000 sign ups each month), it’s …

Brian Moriarty seeks collaboration with leading studios on follow-up to classic adventure game

Blizzard has said that the next Hearthstone expansion will be called Blackrock Mountain and will be released in April. The single player expansion will follow the pattern laid down by the first expansion, Curse of Naxxramas, in releasing a new ‘wing’ week-by-week. Unlike Naxxrama, however, the first wing will not …

We round-up all of the biggest announcements from this year's Game Developers Conference

Microsoft has said that it will not lock the Windows 10 Xbox Live app behind a Gold subscription paywall. The confirmation came from Major Nelson on Twitter, who told a fan that: Xbox Live Gold will not be required for online multiplayer gaming using our service on Windows 10 PCs …

Warner Bros and Techland’s open world zombie title Dying Light once again takes pole position in the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. It keeps the top spot in spite of a 48 per cent decline in sales this week. The game has so far managed to outpace the other new IPs …